No officials at Janata Darshan: HDK hits out at Cong. govt.
The Hindu
Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy listens to public grievances in Mandya, criticizes Congress government, vows to address issues.
A large number of people thronged Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Bhavan in Mandya on Friday to submit their petitions to Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Steel and Mandya MP H.D. Kumaraswamy at his maiden Janata Darshan.
Mr. Kumaraswamy, who reached Mandya from Mysuru after offering a puja atop Chamundi Hills here, was greeted by hundreds of people who had thronged the venue to meet the Minister and submit their grievances.
Mr. Kumaraswamy received the petitions till evening and was seen patiently listening to the people’s problems. He was supported by the former JD(S) MLAs from Mandya.
Earlier, before the start of the Janata Darshan, Mr. Kumaraswamy, in his address, lashed out at the Congress government for stopping officials from attending his Janata Darshan. “This displays the vendetta politics of the Congress government,” he alleged.
He added, “A Cabinet meeting was convened on Wednesday just to discuss my Janata Darshan and to decide on directing the officials in Mandya not to attend my programme. The government can keep the officials away from me but not the people of the State and Mandya.”
Mr. Kumaraswamy sought to know why the State government officials attended the Janaspandana programme convened by the former Bengaluru Rural MP (D.K. Suresh) a few months before the Lok Sabha elections.
The Union Minister said the Congress government cannot stop his Janata Darshan programme today and in future too as the people of Mandya are with him. “Moreover, this was not my family programme. Being the MP and the Minister in the Union Cabinet, I had convened the programme to address the public grievances,” he argued.